Now you have all of this cool stuff that you created on the web using web 2.0 tools. Let's put it all in one place, online, so that students and parents can access from any computer. No more student share folder and uploading links to Edline. Why not put everything from the web that you use onto one customizable page? Sound too good to be true? It's not. It's Pageflakes! Pageflakes offers a free customizable webpage where you can add Del.icio.us links, RSS feeds, YouTube videos, Podcasts, Glogster Posters and thousands of other widgets. All of this is one place that is fully customizable and accessable from any computer. Check out my Pageflake to get an idea of what you can do. Instead of putting links in the student share folder, I have all of my class links, RSS feeds, and weather data on my Pageflake page. The steps are very easy and once it is done, all of your web 2.0 stuff is in one place!
Watch this short video to get an idea of how to set up your page:
Once you have a basic idea of what you want in your page can click the little snow flake in the upper right of your Pageflake page to add content. If you want to add a Glogster poster or any other embeddable content, find the "Anyflake" in the "Pagecasting" column. You can get your embed code from your Glogster poster (or other embedable content) and paste it into the HTML section of the Anyflake.
You can embed your Google Docs documents also. Go to Google Docs and open the document you want to put on Pageflakes. Next to the title of your document in Google Docs, change the privacy of your document to "Public-Anyone on the web."
Click the little drop down arrow next to the "Share" button on the right side of Google Docs and get your embed code.
Copy it.
Go back to the "Anyflake" document in Pageflakes and paste that code in the HTML box.
DON"T FORGET TO PUBLISH YOUR PAGEFLAKE WHEN YOU ARE READY!
Just click "Create Pagecast."
DON"T FORGET TO PUBLISH YOUR PAGEFLAKE WHEN YOU ARE READY!
Just click "Create Pagecast."